Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (1919–1944)
| Montgomery Cunningham Meigs | |
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Lt. Col. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, c.1942
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| Nickname(s) | "Monty", "Mont" |
| Born |
October 8, 1919 Weston, Massachusetts |
| Died | December 11, 1944 (aged 25) Rohrbach, France |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch | United States Army |
| Years of service | 1940-1944 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant Colonel
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| Unit | 12th Armored Division |
| Commands held |
8th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Bliss (1940) 2nd Armored Division (1941) 7th Armored Division (1942) 23rd Tank Battalion, 12th Armored Division(1944) |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
 Silver Star Purple Heart
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| Relations |
Montgomery C. Meigs (Civil War general, 1816-1892) Montgomery C. Meigs, Jr. (civil engineer, 1847 – 1931) General Montgomery Meigs (contemporary military general, b. 1945) Cornelia Lynde Meigs (1884-1973) Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs (1792 – 1869) John Rodgers Meigs (February 9, 1842 – October 3, 1864) Admiral Montgomery M. Taylor (1869 – 1952) Mary Meigs (April 27, 1917 – November 15, 2002) |
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (/ˈmɛɡz/; August 10, 1919–December 11, 1944) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army and commander of a tank battalion during World War II. He is the great-great grandnephew of Montgomery C. Meigs, Quartermaster of the Union Army during the Civil War, and father of retired General Montgomery Meigs, Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe. He was killed in action during the first weeks of battle faced by the 12th Armored Division during the liberation of Alsace in France.
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs ("Monty") was the youngest of three sons of Comdr. John Forsyth Meigs, USN (March 2, 1890 – January 3, 1963) and Elisabeth Hubbard Meigs (1894 - 1991). He was born in Weston, Massachusetts, and due to his father's naval posting, he attended 8 different schools, graduated from the Brent School in Baguio, Philippines, and attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating 44th in his class in 1940. During the latter part of his school career he was handicapped by a painful back injury which kept him in a plaster cast for six months and in an iron brace for a year.
Upon graduation from West Point in 1940, he chose to enter the cavalry and first served in the 8th Cavalry Regiment, at Fort Bliss, Kentucky. In 1941 he was transferred to the 2nd Armored Division and in 1942 to the 7th Armored Division, serving as an MP at Fort Polk, Louisiana. While in these two divisions he was seriously and painfully injured in motorcycle accidents, first with a broken neck vertebra and second with a broken knee.
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